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To Warm the Soul

Shoshana Lewin-Fischer November 15, 2001

\”Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit,\”

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins.

(Health Communications, Inc., $12.95).

What if someone told you they were making chicken soup, but it took eight years for you to get your bowl? Several years after the release of their first book, the creators of the \”Chicken Soup for the Soul\” series, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, have prepared a warm bowl of \”Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul,\” like bubbie used to make.

The Secret History

Ruth Andrew Ellenson November 15, 2001

\”The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People,\” by Jonathan Kirsch (Viking Press, $14.95).

Jonathan Kirsch lives a double life that many lawyers only dream of.

Nice and Gruesome

Gaby Wenig November 15, 2001

Perhaps the most disarming thing about Jonathan Kellerman — best-selling author of gruesome crime mysteries that deal with the seedier aspects of human nature and society — is that he is nice and charming.

The pyschotherapist turned author has his 17th thriller \”Flesh and Blood,\” coming out on Nov. 20 (Random House).

The Vatican and the Shoah

Aaron Leibel November 8, 2001

Kertzer, author of \”The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,\” the story of the 1858 shocking kidnapping of a 6-year-old Italian Jewish boy from his family by police acting under orders from the Vatican, says he was moved to write this book after the 1998 publication of \”We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,\” a report on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.

Anxiety about Jewish Literature

Ruth Wisse November 8, 2001

As long as the Jewish people lives, it will generate a living culture, and as long as that culture values the written word, Jews will write books.

Wayward Son

Naomi Pfefferman November 8, 2001

\”Shadows of Sin\” began when Orthodox mystery author Rochelle Krich was chilled by a verse in Deuteronomy after the Columbine High School shootings in 1999.\n\nThe passage described the \”wayward and rebellious\” son, who is condemned to death for crimes of theft, drunkenness and gluttony.

Preaching Tolerance

Ronald J. Nessim November 1, 2001

Can religious leaders be devout but not fanatic? Can fervent belief and tolerance coexist? Such questions are hardly academic these days: the results of religious fanaticism now consume headlines, and lives. One set of reassuring answers can be found in the life of Rabbi Benzion Uziel. Uziel served as the Sephardic chief rabbi of Palestine and then the State of Israel from 1939 until his death in 1953.

In \”Loving Truth and Peace: The Grand Religious Worldview of Rabbi Benzion Uziel\” (Jason Aronson, Inc., $30) author and rabbi Marc Angel tells the story of this remarkable man.

Jews in U. S. Politics

Sharon Samber November 1, 2001

A woman who was the trusted adviser to the governor of New York in the 1920s. The ambassador to Turkey in 1889. The attorney general in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Belle Moskowitz, Solomon Hirsch and Edward Levi were all Jews involved in U.S. political life in different periods. Previously confined to the footnotes of political science textbooks or familiar only to political junkies, these figures and others are part of a new book charting Jews\’ impact on American political life.

The book, \”Jews in American Politics,\” (Rowman & Littlefield, $39.95) is not simply a \”locate the landsman\” exercise but an attempt to address a number of issues — such as Jewish political behavior, Jewish advocacy and the relationship between politics and Jewish identity — along with important demographic information and more than 400 biographical profiles.

The Failed Intellectuals

Dennis Gura October 11, 2001

Fouad Ajami\’s \”Dream Palace of the Arabs\” lacks Benda\’s harshness and polemics, but illustrates how fragile and tenuous are the intellectuals\’ claims on political life.

An Excerpt From “Eden”

Yossi Klein Halevi September 13, 2001

At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden

by Yossi Klein Halevi

William Morrow

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